Murder trial begins for 2 men accused in Pontiac party bus shootings

8:01 PM,
May 10, 2013

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Trial began Friday for two men charged with first-degree felony murder, accused of opening fire on a crowded party bus parked in front of a Pontiac bar, killing two.

Prosecutors say Lerrick Myers, 21, of Pontiac and Craig Lewis, 23, formerly of Pontiac but now a resident of Taylor, fired semiautomatic handguns into a rented bus the morning of May 13, 2012, as they sat parked in front of Porky's Bikini Bar at the corner of Kennett and Baldwin.

Shuntrice Sylvester, 19, was hit in the aorta and died. Anthony Ellis, 28, was shot in the heart and died at a hospital. The two, both Detroit residents, had ...